Overnight Blogger restored Blog, which was deleted yesterday morning, either by a hacker (as part of the Gawker hack which I was effected by) or by a change in Blogger code. Blogger says it was a bug but a lot of those effected were also hit by the Gawker hack. So I don't know what happened but I am very grateful Google (which owns Blogger) acted quickly to restore Blog.
So now I have two blogs, one at chillyhollownp.blogspot.com (the original) and the clone at chillyhollowneedlepoint.blogspot.com. I'm eventually going to remove the clone but I'd like it if as many folks as possible can check out the new look of the clone and let me know if they can view it successfully. Eventually I'm going to have to switch to the new templates and I'd like to know in advance if they mean some Blog readers can't view things when I am forced to switch.
Anyway, here is the clone address which I created yesterday. Please check it out and let me know in the Comments if you can read it and if you like the new look. Thanks!
http://chillyhollowneedlepoint.blogspot.com
For those of you who use Blogger for your blog and are now nervously trying to figure out how to do backups, log into your blog, go to the Dashboard, then click on Settings. You'll see at the top of the main section commands for Export and Import and Delete. Ignore Delete!
If you click on Export a file of your blog postings will be downloaded to your computer. If you click on Import, you can load that file back into Blogger and your postings will be restored to the point of the last backup. Note that you will have to reload the template that sets up the look of your blog and add the header photo, title and any widgets you have manually. For Blog, all the contents of the right column had to be manually redone except for the archive of postings which is generated automatically. So keep a file of the photos you use with the backup file you download periodically. I backed up once a month but I think I'll change that to once a week. As often as I post, restoring a lost month's worth of material is a big chore, bigger than I realized.
Hope this helps everyone. Thanks a lot to all those who emailed me that something was wrong with Blog. I appreciate your concern and support greatly, whether it was a hacker who deleted Blog or a bug that wiped it out.
Written by Jane/Chilly Hollow Blogging at http://chillyhollownp.blogspot.com Archived Yahoo 360 postings at http://profiles.yahoo.com/chillyhollow
20 comments:
Bad scare, but glad you are back!
Hello Jane, good morning. I am able to access this one but was not able to access the cloned blog.
Palma, thanks for letting me know my dyslexia had messed up the Clone Blog's address. It is fixed now. I often exchange letter places without realizing I have done so since Dyslexia makes everything look just fine when it isn't.
Glad you are back Jane, sorry but I can not get into the clone site.
Santa Deb, try again. I fixed the typo in the URL.
I am glad you are back up and running. Thanks for the exporting lesson. I backed up my blog for the first time.
I just tried to open the clone link, and I can not get the site.
So glad you're back in action! I could access your new address through your post on one of the e-mail lists, but I can't reach it through the link in your own blog.
What a world we've created with our computers and the web!!
Nancy
Try it again, Nancy. I corrected the spelling of my original post URL.
Thanks for the backup directions -- never gave it a thought before now. I get an error message and cannot get into your clone site.
I couldn't see anything but "It works" on the clone site.
Golly, what an isolated feeling, not being able to start my day with everyone connected to Sleepy Hollow.
I tried the new site and do not connect. This is Tuesday , 11:30 a.m. in overcast California.
:D So happy to see you are baaaccckkkk!
cannot access clone with
Firefox. Welcome back!
Hi Jane, sorry but still unable to connect to the cloned site with Firefox.
Hi Jane, awful about the blog! I was, unfortunately unable to access the cloned site. Denise
The link to the clone blog works for me today. I'm so glad you are both a needlepoint master and a techie!
Nancy
Yikes, what a scare! I'm glad you've got it sorted out..
Just a thought on the columns - doing a 'save page as' every now and then (would only need to be done when you change something there) would give you a copy of the page to refer to should you need to redo it all.
Thanks for the hint, Z, and thanks to everyone for their good wishes. I always plan for the worst when it comes to computer things so I was ready. If one can prepare for something as odd as having one's blog vanish!
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